![]() He created miniature townspeople, vendors and children who gather and watch the trains pass by.Īt the library’s holiday open house earlier this month, the more than 4,000 people attending enjoyed this year’s version of the train. There’s a castle, a cathedral and a waterfall. Here is a list of the most commonly used e-readers and some directions on how to use them to load books from Overdrive.Visitors at the Columbus Metropolitan Library's open house earlier this month flocked to see the Huntington Holiday Train.Īt the library, the train covers more than 600 square feet, has more than 280 feet of train track, 50 pounds of “snow” and multiple trains traveling through the layers of the exhibit.īusse designed the buildings after real churches, homes and stores in Bavarian towns in Germany and constructed them all of natural materials including bark, leaves, seeds, pinecones and moss. Barnes & Noble Staff will come to libraries for free sessions with staff or public to demonstrate the Nook…I’m sure other places may do so as well. Have a training session for your staff and patrons about using your digital software and several different kinds of e-readers.80-90% of the time you can answer a patrons questions just by doing this. If your staff is unfamiliar with a certain reader, go to the readers manufacturer website and read the FAQ’s about loading and using the e-reader.Here are also general directions about downloading the needed software to your computer and loading it to your particular ereader or audio device. You can learn more about Overdrive formats at the Ohio Ebook Project. Familarize yourself with your digital system software at your library, whether it be Overdrive or another vendor.Take advantage of your regional Ohio Library Council Chapter Conferences as they will be displaying and showing attendees how to use different types of e-readers and other fun electronics in the “Gadget Gallery”.This way your particular library will only have to provide few titles to contribute and not be relied upon to support an entire digital library-you can borrow someone elses Join and/or make use of a consortium such as SEO (Serving Every Ohian) who provide an array of digital titles for audio and ebook through Overdrive using Overdrive media and Adobe Edition.Our main concern other than having access to digital titles (which we can’t always provide unfortunately) is to TRAIN OUR STAFF to help patrons to use their e-readers and to make full use of our digital library as well as what they can download for themselves via the internet. For small libraries, we don’t always have the funds to buy several kinds of e readers with preloaded books (though a nice idea) for circulation among our patrons, or sometimes even one reader to practice with and to train staff. ![]() Regardless of the pros and cons of e-readers, our patrons are using them at a rapid rate and as their access to content,we have to keep up with their needs. There are several different file formats for different readers (though most will work with EPUB format through Adobe) which can force libraries to buy several copies in different formats for one title. ![]() ** This is why Amazon’s Kindle does not work well if at all with libraries digital software (mainly Overdrive), why an ebook you want is not available or the waiting list is so long for it (libraries can buy titles, but they only come with so many licenses for viewing at the same time-or certain books are not yet available in digital format and sometimes never will be)
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